Perfect casting: Omega Speedmaster has starring role in Gravity

Gravity, starring George Clooney and Sandra Bullock, has been one of the smash hit movies of 2013. The 3-D thriller centres around Dr. Ryan Stone, played by Bullock, a brilliant medical engineer on her first shuttle mission, with veteran astronaut Matt Kowalsky (Clooney). But on a seemingly routine spacewalk, disaster strikes. The shuttle is destroyed, leaving Stone and Kowalsky completely alone - tethered to nothing but each other and spiralling out into the endless depths of space.

An admirable supporting role in the movie was played by the OMEGA Speedmaster Professional, and of all the stars in the movie, it’s the Speedmaster with easily the most experience in coping with the weightless inky black void of outer space. The OMEGA Speedmaster is the only watch to have been qualified for every NASA piloted flight since 1965.

The movie, directed by Alfonse Cuaron, which has so far grossed over $250m – more than double its production costs - could find itself up for several special effects Oscars in the new year.

The OMEGA Speedmaster Professional Chronograph has a unique place in the history of space exploration as the only piece of equipment to have been used in all of NASA's manned space programs from Gemini in the mid-1960's to the current International Space Station program. Even before its official approval, it had been the private choice of astronauts on two of the one-man Mercury missions.

Re: Perfect casting: Omega Speedmaster has starring role in Gravity

Originally Posted by Michael Weare

Gravity, starring George Clooney and Sandra Bullock, has been one of the smash hit movies of 2013. The 3-D thriller centres around Dr. Ryan Stone, played by Bullock, a brilliant medical engineer on her first shuttle mission, with veteran astronaut Matt Kowalsky (Clooney). But on a seemingly routine spacewalk, disaster strikes. The shuttle is destroyed, leaving Stone and Kowalsky completely alone - tethered to nothing but each other and spiralling out into the endless depths of space.

An admirable supporting role in the movie was played by the OMEGA Speedmaster Professional, and of all the stars in the movie, it’s the Speedmaster with easily the most experience in coping with the weightless inky black void of outer space. The OMEGA Speedmaster is the only watch to have been qualified for every NASA piloted flight since 1965.

The movie, directed by Alfonse Cuaron, which has so far grossed over $250m – more than double its production costs - could find itself up for several special effects Oscars in the new year.

The OMEGA Speedmaster Professional Chronograph has a unique place in the history of space exploration as the only piece of equipment to have been used in all of NASA's manned space programs from Gemini in the mid-1960's to the current International Space Station program. Even before its official approval, it had been the private choice of astronauts on two of the one-man Mercury missions.

Re: Perfect casting: Omega Speedmaster has starring role in Gravity

This is not the most up-to-date post. This is old news ... at least on WUSOF.

Perhaps this thread would have made more sense in another forum on WUS (e.g.-the Public Forum), and not the Omega Forum. I doubt the editor can post something here that most of us don't already know more about than he does. Just a suggestion.